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buys 55% in Production
Companies •••
The Webusersguild,
wwwWUG4.com, reported that the
Culver City Studio, MGM,
announced it had acquired a
majority stake in Mark Burnett's
production company, One Three
Media, which holds rights to
reality hits like "The Voice,"
"Survivor," "The Apprentice" and
"Shark Tank." Mr. Burnett will
run the operation as CEO of a new
MGM unit called United Artists
Media Group. • United
Artists has a storied
history- ••••
in the movie business. The
company was founded by Charlie
Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas
Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith in
1919. It became part of MGM in
1981. MGM and Tom Cruse restarted
United Arists in the mid-2000s,
but the venture foundered
releasing just two pictures
"Limbs for Lambs and
"Valkyrie."
businesses.
••••
Under Burnett, United Artists
will foucs on development,
production and financing for
television programs, films and
digital content. Roma Downey,
best know for starring on the TV
program "Touched by an Angel,will
serve as president of
LightWorkers, now the faith and
family unit of United
Artists.
worldwide," Gary Barber, MGM's
chairman and chief executive,
said in a statement. • Financial terms were
not disclosed.
••••
The Hearst Corporation will
continue to own a minority stake
in the One Three Media and
LightWorkers businesses.
••••
"Mark and Roma are without a
doubt the most successful and
dominant players in unscripted
television and faith-based
content, and we are excited to be
distributing United Artists Media
Group content worldwide," Gary
Barber, MGM's chairman and chief
executive, said in a
statement.
••••
Mr. Barber also announced the
creation of a LightWorkers
on-demand Internet channel. "We
look forward to growing our
television, film and digital
business while also creating a
whole new platform," Mr. Burnett
said in a statement. • MGM very nearly
capsized --
•••more
than once -- in the 2000s, as the
collapse of the DVD market and a
revolving set of owners left the
company choking on $4 billion in
debt. A bankruptcy and new
managers, most notably Mr.
Barber, have since turned the
operation around, with a new
scripted television division
contributing significantly.
••••
MGM's recent television efforts
include "Vikings," "Teen Wolf,"
and the critically acclaimed
"Fargo" on FX. • Among the shows in the
works- ••••
from Mr. Burnett and Ms. Downey:
"A.D.," a biblical mini-series
for NBC, "The Dovekeepers"
mini-series for CBS and "On the
Menu," a cooking show for TNT.
They are also helping to produce
a remake of "Ben-Hur" in
partnership with MGM and
Paramount Pictures.
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Using Stock-Bonds As Collateral
- Larry
Ellison Upgrades Oracle Credit
Line to $9.9
Billion ••••
Like most Wall Street financial
firms . . . billionaire Larry
Ellision, has increased the
amount of Oracle Corp. stock he's
pledged against personal
indebtedness and lines of credit
to 9.9 billion dollars.
••••
Ellison, 70, holds 250 million
shares of the Redwood City,
Calif.-based software maker as
collateral, according to the
company's proxy statement. That
compares with 215 million shares
last year and 139 million in
2012.
••••
"With interest rates on loans so
low right now, would I rather
sell some investments I have and
give up the return on those, or
would I rather get a loan?" Tim
Steffen, director of financial
planning at Robert W. Baird &
Co., said in a phone interview.
"And he's not going to sell his
vacation home to go and make
another investment."
••••
Elison, who has a net worth of
43.1 billion, according to the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is
known for his lavish
lifestyle.
••••
He built a sprawling
Japanese-inspired home in Silicon
Valley, scooped up swaths of land
in Malibu, and, in 2012 purchased
Lanai, the sixth-largest Hawaiian
Island.
••••
He also sponsors the U.S.'s
America's Cup team, which won the
sailing competition last year.
The catamarans for the race cost
about $8 million to build, and
Oracle Team USA and its three
challengers this year could've
spent more than $100 million each
on their boats, crew, facilities
and support staff, Gary
••••
Ellison is stepping down as
Oracle chief executive officer to
become chairman and chief
technology officer. The company
named Mark Hurd and Safra Catz,
who were previously
co-presidents, co-CEOs on Sept.
18. • Deborah Hellinger, a
spokeswoman for ••••Oracle, declined to comment
on Ellison's collateralized
shares.
••••
"Banks know he's a good risk, so
they're willing to lend him the
money," Steffen said. "Even
though the size of the loan seems
big, this is $10 billion on $43
billion. That's less than 25
percent -- less than your average
investor. Is your mortgage less
than 25 percent of your net
worth?"
••••
Billionaires including Sumner
Redstone, the chairman of Viacom
Inc., and Tesla Motors Inc.
co-founder Elon Musk also use
shares to secure personal debt.
Musk has pledged at least 10
million Tesla shares as
collateral, valued at $2.53
billion as of yesterday's closing
price, according to the company's
proxy statement.
on Ellison's collateralized
shares.
••••
Redstone
controls some CBS Corp. and
Viacom shares through National
Amusements Inc., which owns
Showcase Cinemas. Some of those
shares are pledged to lenders of
a National Amusements subsidiary,
according to filings from the two
New York-based companies. • Ellison "isn't doing
anything unusual- ••••
and he wouldn't have done this if
the company was concerned about
it," Steffen said.
••••
Oracle paid Ellison $67.3 million
in fiscal 2014, including an
option award valued at $65
million, according to the proxy.
The company will cut Ellison's
stock-option grant from 7 million
shares to 2.25 million in its
next fiscal year, according to
the filing. The reduction follows
two consecutive shareholder
rejections of Oracle's executive
pay plan in annual non-binding
votes.
••••
Ellison has collected at least
$2.1 billion exercising options
since 1994, according to data
compiled by compensation expert
Graef Crystal. In the 20 years
ended May 31 this year, Oracle
has posted a total return of more
than 2,500 percent, almost 2,000
percentage points more than the
Standard & Poor's 500 Index
during the same period.
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George Clooney Honored with Cecil
B. DeMille
Award ••••
The Hollywood Foreign
Press Association announced that
actor, director, writer, and
producer, George Clooney will be
honored with the Cecil B. DeMille
Award at the 72nd Golden Globe
Awards next year, for his impact
on the entertainment
industry.
••••
Theo Kingma, the association's
president, said "the award
celebrates Clooney's outstanding
contributions both in front and
behind the camera."
••••
The HFPA has given Cloony 13
nominations over the years--
and four Golden Globe wins for --
lead actor in a comedy/musical
for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
in 2001, supporting role in
"Syriana," 2006, " lead actor in
a drama "The Descendants" in 2012
and for producer of 2013's best
picture winner, "Argo."
••••
Clooney's achievements also have
earned him four SAG Awards, one
BAFTA award, two Critics' Choice
Awards, an Emmy and four National
Board of Review Awards.
••••
Clooney, 53, has won two Oscars,
and has been nominated in seven
Oscar categories -- more than
anyone else in Oscar History.
••••
He most recently appeared in
"Gravity" and through his
Smokehouse production company
produced, directed and starred in
"The Monuments Men." He'll star
next in the Disney sci-fi film
"Tomorrowland" and is slated to
direct a film about Britain's
phone-hacking scandal.
••••
The 72nd Golden Globes will be
handed out Jan. 11, 2015, in a
ceremony airing live on NBC.
•
The Cecil
B. DeMille Award is given
annually-
to those who have made an
incredible impact on the world of
entertainment. Recent recipients
include Woody Allen (2014), Jodie
Foster (2013), Morgan Freeman,
(2012), Robert De Niro (2011),
Martin Scorsese (2010), Steven
Spielberg (2009), Warren Beatty
(2007), Anthony Hopkins (2006),
Robin Williams (2005), Michael
Douglas (2004), Gene Hackman
(2003), Harrison
Ford (2002), Al Pacino
(2001), and Barbra Streisand
(2000). •
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SIMON COWELL, NAMED MIPCOM 2014
PERSONALITY OF THE
YEAR
Paris, Sept. 1,
2014 ••••
Entertainment industry creative
icon Simon Cowell is to be
honored as the MIPCOM 2014
Personality of the Year. ••••
The TV and film producer, music
label boss and
internationally-renowned talent
show judge will receive his award
at a gala dinner for industry
executives at the Carlton Hotel
in Cannes on Tuesday 14 October.
On Monday 13 October, Cowell will
give a keynote interview in the
Grand Auditorium of the Palais
des Festivals.
••••
One of the best-known faces on TV
screens in the world, Cowell has
transformed popular culture in
the 21st century through his
wide-reaching TV and music
enterprise.
••••
"Simon Cowell is a visionary
producer whose television
franchises are on air in almost
200 territories around the world,
underlining his status as a
global creative icon. In
recognition of his amazing career
as a creator of international
formats and his formidable impact
on the entertainment industry as
a whole, we are honoured to
welcome him to Cannes as the
MIPCOM 2014 Personality of the
Year," said Paul Zilk, CEO of
Reed MIDEM, organiser of
MIPCOM.
••••
Cowell's Syco Entertainment is a
world-renowned music, film, and
television production company
responsible for some of the most
successful global music and
television franchises. Syco's
television assets include the two
international phenomenon formats:
"Got Talent" and "The X Factor"
both created by Simon Cowell. The
Syco Music roster includes stars
such as One Direction, Little
Mix, Susan Boyle, Ella Henderson,
Il Divo, Labrinth, Cher Lloyd,
Fifth Harmony, Alex & Sierra,
and
Collabro. •
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Buffett + $Bill = Burger King-
"INVERSION"
Deal
•••TVI's
Person of theWeek, Warren Buffett
greases $3 Billion to make the
Burger King Inversion deal
happen ••••
The
$11.4 billion dollar transaction
for Canadian coffee-and-doughnut
chain Tim Hortons Inc., with
headquarter in Canada is the
latest company to undergo an
inversion, which happens when an
American company uses a merger to
reincorporate as a foreign
one. ••••
In such a maneuver, which is
legal, a U.S. company buys a
foreign competitor in a nation
with a lower corporate tax rate
and shifts its headquarters to
that country.
••••
As inversions have gained in
popularity in recent years, the
US administration has been
pushing for new restrictions. The
latest in a series of corporate
offshore tax-reducing moves, also
puts the Obama administration in
a difficult spot as it tries to
stem the flow of U.S. companies
moving to foreign countries.
with
lower tax rates..
••••
Burger King's purchase of Tim
Hortons, creating the world's
third-largest fast-food
company,-
is one of the highest-profile tax
inversions so far.
••••
Some
have suggested boycotting the
fast food chain, while others
have directed their criticism and
anger toward the billionaire
investor Warren Buffett, whose
company Berkshire Hathaway is
partly financing the deal with
investing $3 billion.
••
Industry experts said Burger King
is especially vulnerable to a
backlash because it is a popular
consumer brand, unlike some of
the pharmaceutical companies that
have undertaken other recent
high-profile inversions.
••••
But
a backlash against Burger King
will be short-lived because most
people will not be thinking about
their patriotism when they are
pulling through the drive-through
at
Burger
King, to get a
Whooper.
•
Buffett is famous for
arguing-
that our tax code should be
fairer and that the rich and
powerful should not get more
breaks than middle-income
Americans -- views that some say
are incongruous with his
involvement in.
••••
He has been a staunch advocate of
companies and citizens paying
their fair share of taxes
&emdash; so much so that the
administration's proposal to
force millionaires to pay the
same share of their income in
taxes as middle-class families is
known as the Buffett Rule.
••••
"How can you hammer a deal for
tax policies when the very person
your signature tax policy -- the
Buffett Rule -- is named after is
involved and argues that [the
deal] is not
tax-motivated?"
•
Buffett said it made sense-
for the combined company's
headquarters to be in Canada. The
companies are roughly equal in
market value, and Tim Hortons had
sales of $3.2 billion last year,
compared with $1.1 billion for
Burger King.
••••
"Tim Hortons earns more money
than Burger King does," Buffett
told the Financial Times. "I just
don't know how the Canadians
would feel about Tim Hortons
moving to Florida. The main thing
here is to make the Canadians
happy."
••••
Anger toward Warren Buffett is
misdirected. He cannot close
loopholes that allow Burger King
to claim Canadian citizenship any
more than he can close the
loophole that allows him and fund
managers to pay a smaller
percentage of their income in
taxes than their
secretaries.
•
The real culprits are members of
Congress-
who
have failed to close these
loopholes and have allowed Burger
King to claim that it is becoming
a foreign corporation for tax
purposes even when common sense
tells us it is as American as any
company could be..
••••
You
see, Burger King will continue to
serve U.S. customers. It will not
undergo much change in ownership.
And it will likely continue to
have its managers based in the
United States. But when it's time
to pay taxes, it will claim to be
a newly restructured company
based in Canada, which has a
lower corporate tax rate.
••••
Burger King Worldwide Inc.
executives said the move to
create a corporate holding
company in Canada was not a tax
dodge. Instead, they said, it was
justified because Canada would be
the new company's largest market.
They noted that Burger King would
remain a stand-alone brand with
its headquarters still in
Miami.
••••
Proposed restriction curbs
probably wouldn't apply to the
Burger King-Tim Hortons deal. A
House bill has an exception when
a company has "substantial
business activities," such as 25%
of its employees or assets, in
the country where it plans to
place its headquarters. •
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ON HER 93rd
BIRTHDAY
WITH MUSICIAL
CELEBRATION
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Magazine) ••••Celebrity
Scene's Pete Allman, known as
''the man on the scene,'' has
been involved in the
entertainment business for years,
in helping escalate the
careers of Lyn Ashley, The Oscar
Martinez Dancers and Kirby Van
Burch, known as The Prince of
Magic.''
••••
Allman first arrived in Las Vegas
in 1978 where he opened his own
review, ''The Pete Allman
Revue,'' which opened at The
Fremont Hotel, later moving up
the strip to The Marina Hotel,
now The MGM.
••••
Allman, who can still belt out a
song, segued from singing and
journalism for over 40 different
publications such as The Las
Vegas Tribune, The Hollywood
Gazette, Showbiz Magazine, The
Las Vegas Hollywood Magazine,
lasvegas.net, newsblaze.com,
into hosting radio shows in
California and Las Vegas, later
finding his true love in
producing half hour television
shows such as The Las Vegan
Report, The Las Vegas Hollywood
Report, CMX Sports and
Entertainment and currently
Talk Back at West L.A.
College. •
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"Game
of Thrones" earned the most
nominations when the 2014 Emmy
nominees were announced. The HBO
show received 19 nominations,
including one in the coveted
drama series
category.
Actor
in a drama: Bryan Cranston
("Breaking Bad")
Actress in a drama: Julianna
Margulies ("The Good Wife")
Drama series: "Breaking Bad"
(AMC)
Comedy series: "Modern Family"
(ABC)
Mini series: "Fargo" (FX)
TV Movie: "The Normal Heart"
(HBO)
Variety Series: "The Colbert
Report" •
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Internet No longer
free? On
July 15, 2014, the House approved
a permanent extension of the
moratorium of the Permanent
Internet Tax Freedom
Act
••••
From
the inception of the Internet
until the late 1990s, the
Internet was free of government
regulation in the United States
at all levels, and also free of
any specially targeted tax
levies. By 1996, however, as the
Internet was becoming so
fundamental to communications and
the economy, that began to
change, as several U.S. states
and municipalities began to see
Internet services as a potential
source of tax revenue.
•
The 1998 Internet Tax Freedom
Act,
signed
by President Bill Clinton, halted
the expansion of direct taxation
of the Internet, grandfathering
existing taxes in certain states
by temporarily banning any
additional jurisdictions from
taxing Internet access services,
on the grounds that such costs
would deter Americans from
getting connected. In the United
States alone, thousands+ taxing
jurisdictions could otherwise
have laid claim to taxes on a
piece of the Internet. The law,
however, did not affect sales
taxes applied to online
purchases. These continue to be
taxed at varying rates depending
on the jurisdiction, in the same
way that phone and mail orders
are taxed.
••••
Also
the idea of taxing email is no
more popular today than when
President Bill Clinton signed the
Internet Tax Freedom Act into
law. But a dedicated
congressional minority now wants
to allow states and localities to
tax email-- unless these
governments are given new powers
to collect sales taxes on
e-commerce.
•
This is the third time in 16
years
Congress has temporarily extended
the Permanent Internet Tax
Freedom Act since its original
enactment. The most recent
extension was titled the Internet
Tax Freedom Act Amendment Act of
2007, signed into law on November
1, 2007, by George W. Bush and
extended the moratorium until
November 1, 2014
••••On
July 15, 2014, the House approved
a permanent extension of the
moratorium of the Permanent
Internet Tax Freedom Act, a bill
that would amend the Internet Tax
Freedom Act to make permanent the
ban on state and local taxation
of Internet access and on
multiple or discriminatory taxes
on electronic commerce.
•••••
Senate
Democratic leaders, however, want
to tie the no-new-Internet-taxes
bill to a measure that would let
states require online retailers
in other states to collect sales
taxes for them. Such proposal
wouldn't impose any new taxes on
the Internet; shoppers there
already owe "use" taxes on
purchases from out-of-state
retailers. However, they
typically don't pay them. Despite
the many differences in local
rates and rules technological
advances have made it easy for
websites to collect sales tax
from any shopper. As long as
lawmakers streamline the
submission and auditing of tax
payments, it's reasonable to
require online retailers to
collect sales taxes from
out-of-state buyers. The change
would also eliminate an unfair
advantage that e-tailers enjoy
over their brick-and-mortar
competitors.
••••If
the Senate does not approve this
bill, states would be responsible
for setting the tax rate.
••••If
the ban on taxes is overturned,
it would not impact the local
governments, it would affect
businesses. If the ban is
approved, then it would prevent
state and local governments from
placing taxes on those using the
Internet.
••••
The
problem would be determining who
would actually set the tax, since
there has been no real proposal
on how the rate would be
based.
••••Some
retailers for instance use the
Internet for business every
single day, and they couldn't
imagine being taxed to use the
Internet, even if it is the
difference between dollars and
cents, and it could change the
way online retailers do business.
They may not be able to
have
an
e-business site or sell things
online.
•
The legislation is now in the
hands of the Senate,
which has to approve the bill
before it become a law . On
November 1 -- and remember,
Election Day is November 4 -- the
moratorium on Internet-only taxes
ends. Meaning you and I
will pay the government even more
coin to surf the World Wide
Web.
••••
That
bill, which passed the House by a
large margin, would permanently
entrench a temporary moratorium
on ISP taxes. The measure is
politically popular because it
means consumers won't see
"service fees," akin to those
that appear on cell phone
statements, on their broadband
bills.
••••
When
you next fume at your Internet or
cell phone bill -- check the
litany of taxes tacked on -- not
to forget the built-in government
costs you pay but never see.
That way you'll know at
whom to actually be angry. ••
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PBS receives 43 Emmy nominations.
••••
The
35th News andDocumentary Emmy
Awards nominations have been
announced, and PBS leading with
43 nominations for 13
programs. "60 Minutes" on CBS
led all series with 27
nominations. Frontline on PBS
received 11 nomination for nine
programs and for League of
Denial, its two-part look at
the NFL's concussion crisis.
••••
HBO
received 15 news and dcoumentary
nominations all for its HBO
Documantary Films series.
••••
New
categories in Spanish, included
outstanding newscast or news
magazine, outstanding coverage of
a breaking news story, and
outstanding investigative
jouranlism.
••••
The
National Academy of Television
Arts & Sciences, created in
1955, recognizes, encourages and
advances excellence in the
television industry across all
media by serving as an
educational and professional
resource to its members and to
the industry.
••••
The NATAS
reward outstanding professional,
technical and personal
achievement in the arts and
sciences of television by
conferring the industry's highly
coveted peer recognition symbol
of distinction, the Emmy®
award. •
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TVI's person of the month bids
for Time
Warner •••Media
Mogul Rupert Murdoch's
$80-billion bid to acquire Time
Warner was rejected, but he is
not known for giving up easily.
In the end they could raise their
bid to try to get the deal done,"
media analysts say. Remember
Murdoch's pursuit of Wall Street
Journal publisher Dow Jones &
Co. when initially, the owners
rebuffed Murdoch until the money,
at $5.6 billion, became too
tempting to pass
up.
••••
What's
driving Murdoch is the rapid
consolidation of pay television
distributors. The nation's
largest cable operator, Comcast
Corp., is in the process of
acquiring Time Warner Cable, and
AT&T is buying satellite
broadcaster DirecTV.
••••
Time
Warner is the parent of HBO, CNN
and Warner Bros. Murdoch controls
Fox News Channel, the Fox
broadcast network and the 20th
Century Fox television and film
studios. He also controls the
Wall Street Journal through his
publishing company, News
Corp.
••••
If the
deal were to be finalized,
Murdoch's new entity would
command a vast library of film
titles, including "Titanic,"
"Avatar," "Harry Potter," and
classics such as "The Sound of
Music" and "Casablanca." Its TV
holdings would include "The
Simpsons" and "The Big Bang
Theory."
••••
The
combination would make Fox an
even bigger player in TV sports
and if Murdoch can pull off the
acquisition, it would establish
Fox as the world's premier media
company. It would also score a
comeback for the billionaire and
his family after a phone hacking
scandal at his British tabloids
badly tarnished the Murdoch
name.
••••
However,
with a potential union of the
nation's two biggest cable news
outlets under one roof, 21st
Century Fox would have an
enormous antitrust issue for the
Justice Department to look
at.•••
••••Fox
has already indicated that it
would sell CNN to make the deal
more attractive. •
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Festival Guests at Munich
Filmfest Germany's
largest summer film festival
opens on June 27 through July 5,
and for nine days will be showing
158 new films from 51
countries •
The 32.
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN opens with
the German premiere of "The Young
and Prodigious T.S. Spiver."
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who
opened Filmfest in 2001 with
"Amelie" will be here with his
young lead actor Kyle Catlett.
The festival's closing night film
is the American production "I
Origins," which will be screened
following the award ceremony on
July 5th. Director Mike Cahill
("Another Earth") will be on hand
with his stars Michael Pitt
("Boardwalk Empire") and Astrid
Bergès-Frisbey ("Pirates
of the Caribbean: The Curse of
the Black Pearl").
••••
In
addition to big stars and young
talent from around the world,
French icon Isabelle Huppert will
be coming to MÜNCHEN.
Huppert will be honored for her
contributions to motions pictures
as an art form. She will also be
presenting her latest film "Paris
Follies" at its German
premiere.
••••
"I'm
thrilled that Isabelle Huppert is
coming to Munich. It's something
we've been planning for years and
now it's finally happening,"
commented festival director Diana
Iljine. "And we have plenty of
great guests this year. From
Hollywood to Bollywood."
••••
Also
coming to town are German actor
Udo Kier, recipient of the
CineMerit Award. American cult
director Walter Hill is being
honored with the first complete
retrospective of his work ever.
Producer legend and Oscar winner
Arthur Cohn will be here for a
gala in which he will talk about
his decades in the American film
capital. And Indian superstar
Irrfan Khan will be bringing a
touch of Bollywood to Bavaria.
Irrfan Khan is known
internationally for films
including "Slumdog Millionaire",
"The Amazing Spider-Man," "Life
of Pi" and "Lunchbox" but also
for films from India. In Munich
he'll be presenting his latest
film "Qissa."
Awards given at Munich
Filmfest-
The most prestigious and
lucrative awards at FILMFEST
MÜNCHEN are given by: ARRI
and Osram (ARRI/OSRAM Award for
Best International Film), Senator
(CineVision Award for Best
International Newcomer Film),
Bavaria Film, Bayerischer
Rundfunk and the DZ Bank (German
Cinema New Talent Award), VFF -
Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film-
und Fernsehproduzenten (Bernd
Burgemeister TV Movie Award).
Sponsor•Hofbräu
München-
••••
It is the
third year for Hofbräu
München as a Filmfest
sponsor among many. The brewery
that is practically synonymous
the world over for Munich and its
beer, makes sure that guests take
a little Munich lifestyle back
home with them. Hofbräu
beers are served at many Filmfest
events including the Open Air
screenings with its beergarden
atmosphere and the closing night
bash. •Click
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• The
Young and Prodigious T.S.
Spivet The Munich Film Festival
premiered Jean-Pierre Jeunet's
"The Young and Prodigious T.S.
Spivet," and will close with "I
Origins" from U.S. helmer Mike
Cahill.
••••The
festival features four sections
-- CineMasters, CineVision,
Spotlight and International
Independents , packed with German
premieres.
••••"This
year's films hit their targets --
they go straight to the heart or
the solar plexus," said festival
director Diana Iljine in a
statement.
••••
Jeunet's
film, which is based on the young
adult novel by Reif Larsen, stars
Helena Bonham Carter and Kyle
Catlett.
••••Jeunet
is best known for feature debut
"Delicatessen" and "Amelie,"
which grossed $170 million
worldwide. His other pics include
"The City of Lost Children,"
"Alien: Resurrection" and "A Very
Long Engagement."
•
CineMerit Award for Udo Kier
The Munich Fest honored Udo Kier
at a gala ceremony with CineMerit
Award, given to an actor whose
career spans Europe and the
U.S.
••••
The ceremony included the world
premiere of his latest film
"Arteholic," in which director
Hermann Vaske accompanies
art-obsessed Kier through some of
Europe's greatest museums. As
part of its homage, the festival
will be showing five additional
films with Kier: "Tod Eines
Weltstars" and "Egomania" by
Christoph Schlingensief; "My Own
Private Idaho"; "A Trick of the
Light," from by Wim Wenders; and
"Iron Sky," by Timo
Vuorensola.
••••Kier's
career is full of daring choices,
and he's worked with such icons
as Andy Warhol ("Andy Warhol's
Frankenstein"), Rainer Werner
Fassbinder ("Lili Marleen,"
"Lola" and "Berlin
Alexanderplatz") and Lars von
Trier (nine films including both
volumes of "Nymphomaniac").
••••In
1991, Kier made his first
Hollywood film, "My Own Private
Idaho," from Gus Van Sant, and
has acted in art films, genre
films and Hollywood
blockbusters.
••••
"Udo Kier is an actor who leaves
a lasting impression, no matter
what the role," said festival
director Diana Iljine. "He is an
actor who is not afraid to take
chances. And many of them have
paid off. Udo Kier himself is a
work of art."
••••Previous
recipients of the CineMerit Award
include actors Julie Christie,
John Malkovich and Michael Caine
as well as the directors Michael
Haneke, Barry Levinson and Milos
Forman. •Click
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Supreme court rules TV streaming
service Aereo
illegal Justices
accept argument of major
broadcasters that Aereo's service
amounts to a violation of
copyright law.
•••
The US
supreme court has ruled that
Aereo, the TV streaming service
backed by media mogul Barry
Diller, is illegal.
•••Aereo,
which launched in 2012 in the New
York area, has expanded across
the US and is now available in
cities including Atlanta, Boston,
Denver, Houston and Miami.
•••Backed
by Diller's IAC, Aereo has
clashed repeatedly with the
television networks. Last October
broadcasters including ABC, CBS
and Fox filed a petition to the
supreme court after an appeals
court rejected their call for a
ban on the service
•••In
a 6-3 decision, the court
rejected an earlier appeals court
decision which had ruled the
fledgling service did not breach
broadcasters' copyright. The
Supreme Court has ruled that
Aereo, the upstart television
streaming service, violated
copyright laws by resending
broadcast signals without paying
licensing fees.
The ruling effectively means the
court sees Aereo as similar to a
cable company &endash; and
therefore liable to pay for the
content it broadcasts.
•••Aereo
captures the over-the-air signals
of network broadcasters and
streams them to customers via
their computers, smartphones or
devices such as Apple TV or Roku.
It has thousands of tiny aerials
that it assigns to each of its
customers, which allows Aereo to
argue that its clients are merely
renting antennae of the sort they
would otherwise have in their
homes.
•••Customers
pay between $8 and $20 a month
for the service, which includes a
cloud-based digital video
recorder &endash; far less than
the average cable bill. The
company does not pay fees to the
media companies whose signals it
redistributes, while the cable
companies pay about $3bn. The
broadcasters argued that Aereo
violated copyright law.
••••The
justices said the law forbids
unlicensed companies to
"transmit" copyrighted shows to
the viewing public. Aereo argued,
unsuccessfully, that it was
transmitting signals to
individual customers through the
use of tiny rented antennas.
••••The
decision represents a major
victory for TV broadcasters, who
depend increasingly on licensing
revenues from cable and satellite
services.
••••Two
veteran Washington attorneys,
Paul Clement and David Frederick,
presented the contrasting
arguments in the case, ABC vs.
Aereo.
••••Clement,
a former solicitor general who
represented ABC and other
broadcasters, called Aereo a
"gimmick" that allows "thousands
of paying strangers to watch live
TV online" without paying a
licensing fee to the broadcasters
for their copyrighted
programs.
••••This
violates the Copyright Act of
1976, he said, adopted in part to
deal with the advent of cable TV
service. Broadcasters were given
an exclusive right to any program
that is "publicly" performed or
transmitted to the public "by
means of any device or process."
This could describe a cable TV
tower, and it also describes
Aereo precisely, he said.
••••However,
Aereo came up with what some say
is a way to skirt around the law.
It denies that its service
amounts to a "public" airing of
programs, but is merely a new way
for individual consumers to watch
programs they could see for
free.
••••With
the service for instance in New
York, subscribers rent a tiny
antenna devoted to their own
individual use at a Brooklyn
facility. Through it, they
capture free over-the-air TV
signals in the area. Frederick,
representing Aereo, compared this
to a set of old-fashioned "rabbit
ears" on a TV set.
••••"It's
no different than if I'm at home,
and I have an antenna or rabbit
ears on my TV, and I know what
channels I can get," attorney
Frederick said. "Consumers have a
right to get over-the-air signals
that are free to the public," he
added.
••••He
likened Aereo to the 1980s-era
video recorders that allowed
consumers to record copies of
programs to be viewed at home. In
1984, the high court ruled that
recording programs at home for
later viewing did not violate
copyright laws.
••••The
argument centered on the
interpretation of a federal law
that applies to the public
performance of copyrighted works.
Aereo argued that its antennae
meant it was facilitating
thousands of individual
performances and not a public
performance, which would violate
the Copyright Act of 1976, which
gives the copyright owner the
"exclusive right" to "perform the
copyrighted work publicly".
••••
In a statement, 21st Century Fox,
formed from the breakup of News
Corp, said: "21st Century Fox
welcomes the US supreme court's
ruling, a decision that
ultimately is a win for consumers
that affirms important copyright
protections and ensures that real
innovation in over-the-top video
will continue to support what is
already a vibrant and growing
television landscape."
••••Objecting
to the ruling, supreme court
justice Antonin Scalia compared
Aereo to a photocopier and said
the company "should not be
directly liable whenever its
patrons use its equipment to
'transmit' copyrighted television
programs to their screens". But
the majority of the judges
rejected that argument given
Aereo's "overwhelming likeness to
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In memory of Casey Kasem" - A sad day for
radio listerners around the
world• Photo: taken during a beauty
pageant
promoting
good posture at Troy Cory's place in
Pasadena. "Thanks Casey for introducing the Troy
Cory Show." Best of memories, Troy.
•
••••
Casey
Kasem, a radio voice who connected
generations of Americans to thousands of
rock and pop acts, died Father's Day, June
15, 2014. Kasem, hospitalized in
Washington state since June 1, had been in
declining health. The longtime host of
radio's American Top 40, which he started
in 1970, was a familiar voice to millions,
known for his signature closig advice:
"Keep our feet on the ground and keep
reaching for the stars."
••••
Kasem
founded the American Top 40 franchise with
Don Bustany, Tom Rounds and Ron Jacobs and
hosted it from 1970 to 1988 and from 1998
to 2004. Between January 1989 and early
1998, he was the host of Casey's Top
40, Casey's Hot 20, and
Casey's Countdown. Also beginning
in 1998, Kasem hosted two AC spin-offs of
American Top 40, American Top 20
and Ameican Top 10. He retired from
AT20 and AT10 on July 4, 2009 and both
shows ended on that day. Ryan Seacrest
took over the AT40 franchise in
2004.
••••••
Kasem supported a
number of other progressive causes,
including affordable housing and the
rights of the homeless, animal rights and
environmental causes, and was a critic of
factory farming.m was a
••••
He was married to
Linda Myers from 1972 to 1979 with whom he
had three children, Mike, Julie, and Kerri
Kasem.
From 1980 until his death, Kasem was
married to actress Jean Thompson. They had
one child, Liberty Jean Kasem.
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Ultra-Cheap TVs, with Roku Streamers built
right
in ••••
Roku, a maker of
streaming devices that send Internet video
to TV screens, is now building its service
into the TV sets themselves. Roku, Inc.
partnered with Hisense and TCL to build
the company's superb Smart TV platform
built-in -- no box required. The Saratoga,
Calif., company announced that pre-orders
are being taken for Roku-equipped
televisions built by Chinese company TCL,
and soon Roku TV sets by Hisense will also
go on sale.
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•101-CELEBRITY
SCENE's - PETE ALLMAN HONORS
MOTHER
WITH MUSICAL
CELEBRATION ••••
Celebrity Scene's
Pete Allman, known as ''the man on the
scene,'' has been involved in the
entertainment business for years, in
helping escalate the careers of Lyn
Ashley, The Oscar Martinez Dancers and
Kirby Van Burch, known as The Prince of
Magic.''
••••
Allman first
arrived in Las Vegas in 1978 where he
opened his own review, ''The Pete Allman
Revue,'' which opened at The Fremont
Hotel, later moving up the strip to The
Marina Hotel, now The MGM. •
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Internet No longer
free? On July 15, 2014, the House approved a
permanent extension of the moratorium of
the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act
••••
From
the inception of the Internet until the
late 1990s, the Internet was free of
government regulation in
the
United
States at all levels, and also free of any
specially targeted tax levies. By 1996,
however, that began to change, as several
U.S. states and municipalities began to
see Internet services as a potential
source of tax revenue.
••••
The
Senatewhich
has to approve the bill before it become a
law . On November 1 -- and remember,
Election Day is November 4 -- the
moratorium on Internet-only taxes ends.
Meaning you and I will pay the
government even more coin to surf the
World Wide Web.
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free? /// •
101-
Emmy Nominees - Award ceremonies, to take
place August
25th. "Game of
Thrones" earned the most nominations when
the 2014 Emmy nominees were announced. The
HBO show received 19 nominations,
including one in the coveted drama series
category.
• Click
For
Complete
List of Emmy Nominees-
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•
108-
TVI's person of the month bids for Time
Warner •Media
Mogul Rupert Murdoch's $80-billion bid to
acquire Time Warner was rejected, but he
is not known for giving up easily. In the
end they could raise their bid to try to
get the deal done," media analysts say.
Remember Murdoch's pursuit of Wall Street
Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. when
initially, the owners rebuffed Murdoch
until the money, at $5.6 billion, became
too tempting to pass up.
••••The
combination would make Fox an even bigger
player in TV sports and if Murdoch can
pull off the acquisition, it would
establish Fox as the world's premier media
company.
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Murdoch's $80 billion bid for Time Warner
rejected ///
•101-
PBS receives 43 Emmy nominations.
••••
The 35th News
andDocumentary Emmy Awards nominations
have been announced, and PBS leading with
43 nominations for 13 programs. "60
Minutes" on CBS led all series with 27
nominations. Frontline on PBS received 11
nomination for nine programs and for
League of Denial, its two-part look
at the NFL's concussion crisis.
••••
HBO received 15
news and dcoumentary nominations all for
its HBO Documantary Films series.
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receives 43 Emmy
nominations. ///
Germany's
largest summer film festival opens on June
27 through July 5, and for nine days will
be showing 158 new films from 51
countries
••••The
32. FILMFEST MÜNCHEN opens with the
German premiere of "The Young and
Prodigious T.S. Spiver." Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who opened Filmfest in
2001 with "Amelie" will be here with his
young lead actor Kyle Catlett.
••••In
addition to big stars and young talent
from around the world, French icon
Isabelle Huppert will be coming to
MÜNCHEN.
••••
••••
"I'm
thrilled that Isabelle Huppert is coming
to Munich. It's something we've been
planning for years and now it's finally
happening," commented festival director
Diana Iljine. "And we have plenty of great
guests this year. From Hollywood to
Bollywood."
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MUNICH
- 7/3/14 • CineMerit
Awardfor
Udo Kier The
Munich Fest honored Udo Kier at a gala
ceremony with CineMerit Award, given to an
actor whose career spans Europe and the
U.S.
••••
The
ceremony included the world premiere of
his latest film "Arteholic," in which
director Hermann Vaske accompanies
art-obsessed Kier through some of Europe's
greatest museums. As part of its homage,
the festival will be showing five
additional films with Kier: "Tod Eines
Weltstars" and "Egomania" by Christoph
Schlingensief; "My Own Private Idaho"; "A
Trick of the Light," from by Wim Wenders;
and "Iron Sky," by Timo Vuorensola.
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Supreme court rules TV streaming service
Aereo
illegal
Justices accept argument of major
broadcasters that Aereo's service amounts
to a violation of copyright law.
••••The
US supreme court has ruled that Aereo, the
TV streaming service backed by media mogul
Barry Diller, is illegal.
••••
In
a 6-3 decision, the court rejected an
earlier appeals court decision which had
ruled the fledgling service did not breach
broadcasters' copyright. The Supreme Court
has ruled that Aereo, the upstart
television streaming service, violated
copyright laws by resending broadcast
signals without paying licensing fees.
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ATBA says FCC report spells war on
broadcasters. WASHINGTON DC
&endash; After consideration and study of
the GN Docket No. 12-268 REPORT &
ORDER released by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) on June
2nd, the Advanced Television Broadcasting
Alliance (ATBA) voiced concern that the
FCC has declared war on broadcasters,
especially LPTV and Translator stations.
The FCC is seemingly denying a significant
amount of the nation free over-the-air
television access in favor of providing
well-funded wireless carriers with more
spectrum for profit. The FCC in the
R&O concluded that the concerns of
broadcasters "are outweighed by the
detrimental impact that protecting LPTV
and TV translator stations would have on
the repacking process and on the success
of the incentive auction."
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
• Many of them
are now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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Digital Hollywood Spring,
May
5-8, Ritz Carlton, Marina Del
Rey.
• tviNews Reports By:
Josie Cory, Mark Anderson, and Troy Cory
••••In
an era that has seen the downsizing or
demise of most household-name tradeshows,
Digital Hollywood is flourishing as a sort
of live-content aggregator attracting
various industry stalwarts to hold private
meetings all at the same venue, then
network together at conference tracks,
keynote roundtables and after-hours
parties.
••••
Victor Harwood who is presiding over
several annual trade shows dealing with
entertainment, media, advertising and
technology events, besides Digital
Hollywood, said back in 2007, "The idea of
putting together a tradeshow by hassling
people to buy booth space is old -- anyone
who did that is not in business
anymore."
••••
His upcoming Spring confab at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel, in Marina Del Rey, CA, made
up of separate multi-track but co-located
events is still the only conference that
brings together creatives, agents,
distributors, technologists, financiers,
lawyers and media -- legally, it's very
hard for a lot of these people to be in
the same room, unless there's a common
purpose and a common theme. More minds
have been changed -- at Digital Hollywood
than at any other conference."
•
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Is Comcast lobbying the
FCC? Big companies
often try to hitch former Washington
insiders for its lobbying team; but the
cable giant Comcast has been especially
aggressive in picking up former
congressional aides and Federal
Communications Commission staff members --
even a former FCC commissioner -- as
company lobbyists.
••••
Many of them are
now fully engaged on the company's
$45-billion takeover venture of Time
Warmer Cable. Such deal would widen
Comcast's lead as the nation's biggest
cable and Internet provider, but requires
the approval of the FCC and the Justice
Department's antitrust division and may
face questions in Congress.
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AereoVs.Broadcasters •The
Areo Debate "To Be or Not to Be,"
provided food for a heated discussion at
the Digital Hollywood Spring conference
May 7, 2014. Moderated by James M. Burger,
Partner, Thompson Coburn, Neil W. Netanel,
Professor of Law, UCLA Law School; John C.
Ulin Partner, Arnold and Porter midway
through the debate were interreupted by
questions of the audience which became
increasingly agitated. It did make for a
lively debate though considering the fact
that most panelists usually take questions
only at the end of a panel discussion.
••••
A
ruling to be followed closely by advocates
of net neutrality, and broadcasters, the
US Supreme Court
justices questioned the legality of Areo
as they weighed whether the starup
violates copyright law by recording
over-the-air programming from an off-site
antenna and delivering it to customers via
the internet. Areo aims to upend the
broadcast industry's decades-old business
model by letting customers in 11 cities
watch live and recorded shows for as
little as $8 a month.
••••
Barry Diller,
Chairman and Senior Executive of media
company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, said
broadcasters are seeking to stifle
innovation for their own financial gain by
suing to shut down Aereo Inc., the
streaming-video company he's backing. "I
am really tired of being accused of
stealing anyone else's programming when we
are not," Diller said. "It's kind of
obnoxious to take away programming they
have promised the public they could
receive directly simply because they want
to take away every dollar from
consumers.
•
•Aereo's
faceoff at the nation's highest court
against broadcasters including 21st
Century Fox Inc., and CBS Corp, stemmed
from its bid to forge a technological
route around the television companies'
copyrights. It was Diller, co-creator of
Fox's broadcast network, who pushed Aereo
beyond its original plan to offer services
only in parts of New York, Aereo CEO Chet
Kanojia stated.
•••The
Supreme Court arguments didn't indicate a
like outcome, as justices, including
Stephen Breyer repeatedly questioned
whether ruling against Aereo would broadly
imperil cloud-computing technologies that
let consumers remotely store content such
as video and access it through the
Web.
••••
U.S. copyright law
gives owners the exclusive right to
perform their works "publicly." If Areo is
deemed to be a public rather than private
performance, the ruling may affect cloud
storage offerings from companies like
Google Inc., Dropbox Inc., Apple,
Amazon.com Inc. and Box Inc.
••••
"If you stop Aereo,
you stop technology," Diller said. •
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FCC Featured at Cable Show, LA Conv. Ctr.
Apr
29-May
1 A
Faster, Better, More Entertaining
Future
• Convention Co-Chairs Welcome:
Rob Marcus, Chairman & CEO, Time
Warner Cable Inc. John Skipper, President,
ESPN, Inc. & Co-Chairman, Disney Media
Networks • City Welcome: Eric Garcetti,
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
• Keynote: Michael Powell,
President & CEO, NCTA • Live From The Cable Show:
FCC Chairman Thomas
Wheeler.
"Let me be clear. If someone acts to
divide the Internet between 'haves' and
'have-nots,' we will use every power at
our disposal to stop it," Wheeler said.
"As chairman of the FCC, I do not intend
to allow innovation to be strangled by the
manipultion of the most important network
of our time, the Internet."
••••
The Cable Show,
the industry's 2014 annual gathering in
Los Angeles had no shortage of news to
pick apart given Comcast's 45 billion deal
to buy Time Warner Cable as well as
the deal Comcast cut with Charter
Communications.
••••
But what was
actually on the minds of many were the
companies that weren't at the show at all:
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon.com, Google, Yahoo,
AT&T, Verizon, Dish and DirecTV --
essentially every company that isn't
strictly speaking a cable company.
••••
However, the fact
that Netflix was nowhere to be found at
the show, either at the session or on the
exhibition floor, was telling.
•••••The
National Cable and Telecommunications
Association, which runs the Cable Show,
says companies such as Netflix have
appeared at the conference in the past to
participate on panels, but they've never
been a big presence.
••••
Many of the cable
networks, such as Turner (which owns CNN
and TNT), Fox News, Discovery
Communications and AMC were there partly
to show off their programming, but mostly
to take meetings with the cable industry.
Privately, some of them have said the
conference would be more useful if the
satellite and telephone companies were
also here.
••••
If the Comcast
merger is approved by regulators, Time
Warner Cable won't exist next year,
turning the Cable Show into the Comcast
show. •
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Stephen Colbert to host the "Late Show" in
2015 Will the
real Stephen Colbert please stand up. After much speculation, and exactly a
week after David Letterman announced his
plans to retire, the fast-sprung news has
settled in that Stephen Colbert, the host,
writer and executive producer of "The
Colbert Report," will replace Dave
Letterman as host of the "Late Show" in
2015. Now that leaves us with the
question, what character is going play the
host." CBS CEO Les Moonves explained that
Cobert would not host the show as
blustering character. "What you're going
to get is the real Stephen Colbert."
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Bill Adrian of the William Adrian Agency
Dies
(1919 - 2014) Mr. Adrian passed away on March 26,
2014 at the age of 94. Visitation on April
3rd from 5-8 p.m. at Cabot and Sons
Mortuary at Chestnut Street, Pasadena.
Funeral Mass, Friday April 4, at 10 a.m.
at St. Philips Catholic Church, 151 S.
Hill Street, Pasadena. ABOUT
BILL ••••
William P. Adrian
was born in Hackensack, NJ in 1919 and
raised in Syracuse, NY, Bill graduated
from Nottingham HS and later attended
Syracuse University where he studied
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• Troy Cory
was among the first international
entertainers and the first American
entertainer to perform in the People's
Republic of China, beginning in 1988. In
itself a notable culture-historical feat,
in view of China's closed door policies of
the late 70s and well into the 80s.
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It was just last week, (Nov 3rd, 2013)
-- that Josie Cory & Margit
Seelos discussed the contributions of
their respective husbands musical talents
to the world. It was in the late 1970s
that found the two women pushing both
grown men to play Santa Claus, elves, and
create the musical scores for the
German/USA production film "Merry
Christmas;" and YouTube.com sequels:
"Just in the Nick of Time,"
starring Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and featuring
the late German singer, Manuela.
The Movie itself was Produced by VRA
TelePlay Picture's, Josie Cory;
Bohemia Film's Williams Janovsky;
and ARD's Gábor Wagner. • The Feature Movie was filmed in
-- and around the city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle Neuschwanstein,
Germany and in Oberndorf, Austria, the
small village and church where the
Christmas carol "Silent Night" was
performed for the first time on December
25, 1818
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Nicholas, the Castle
Neuschwanstein,
and the music of Troy Cory and Ambros
Seelos •
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The vocals, sound tracks and string
section on the Munich Sound recordings
were provided by Troy Cory, Ambros Seelos,
and "The Munich Philharmonics." The piano
and musical arrangements were conducted by
Ambros Seelos and Sylvester
Levay. Several years later it was
Levay who garnered a Grammy Award for
"Fly, Robin, Fly," and wrote the music
scores for the film "Howard the Duck" and
the Vienna musical "Elisabeth."
History:
Founded in 1956 by ABC's
Sam
Donaldson
and his partner Al
Preiss
and acquired by the Cory's in
1987.
InMarch,
1963, TVI hosted the first "Annual Festival of
World TV Classics Award " at the Huntington
Hartford Theater. Since 1956 TVI grew to command
the print readership of television network
executives in 142 countries on six continents,
covering the industry of television, film,
telecommunication and WiTEL. In the middle 90s
TVI Magazine went online: tvimagazine.com
. . .
"People read what they
want," says tviNews. "There is no master plan what
people are interested in." The question is, how can
we partner with people to have a symbiotic
realationship?
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Cory's Road to Harbin,
China
• Troy Cory was
among the first international entertainers and the first
American entertainer to perform in the People's Republic of
China, beginning in 1988. In itself a notable
culture-historical feat, in view of China's closed door
policies of the late 70s and well into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate in comparison is much less
restrictive now and China's open door policy enables many
entertainers to introduce themselves t o the populace
Chinese audiences• •
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